What can you do to help Ukraine and the rest of the world that is suffering?

                                                                            

An Easter unlike any other 

I've experienced a lot of Easters in my life, but this one feels a little different. What did I mean when I said that? Because Ukraine is usually at the center of the news or a significant topic of discussion panels whenever I switch on my TV or go online to follow worldwide news. Despite the fact that I have never visited this country, I am concerned about its future, and my prayers are for this once charming and beautiful country. It's difficult to leave your home in this manner, especially if you enjoyed your previous residence. People, their faces and smiles, eateries, and the street corner where you used to chat with your pals all vanished without warning. Is it possible for me to experience all of their aches and pains? As you may recall from the Bible, Jesus and his parents, Joseph and Mary, were forced to abandon their homeland to Egypt when he was a newborn. And while he was on the cross, he endured all of the bodily suffering as well as the vile accusations leveled against him by his opponents."Father, why have you forsaken me?" Jesus exclaimed aloud. The Father separated him for that moment when he needed to bear all of mankind's sins. He clearly understands what it is to be in pain.

                                                                                  

The Problem and Its Resolution 

Is there still justice in this world when we see so many innocent people being slaughtered, bombed, tortured, and insulted? When all of this transpired, where was our God? Even though I have all the model answers from the Bible, I will nonetheless pose such a question with emotion as a pastor. I believe it is best for me to avoid the subject because I have so many unsolved questions in my emotions and so many already answered questions in my thoughts. But, in these trying times, I'm going to concentrate on what I can do to assist. Will I be the one to save the world? Of course, I won't because I'm incapable of doing so, and only Jesus, my savior, is capable of doing so. Will I remain silent in the face of such anguish? Not in the least. What options do I have? I've compiled the following list: 

 1. If I can pray, you can as well. 

 2. I can demonstrate my care and concern by keeping up with the news. 

 3. I may contribute to those in need, as well as Ukrainian churches and refugees. 

 4. Is there anything else? This is the next thought that comes to mind.

                                                                                   

Do you want to contribute in your own way or in God's way? 

I'm sure there are many additional methods to demonstrate our support for Ukrainians or other people in need around the world. However, it all depends on how much you're willing to give, and since everyone's situation will be different, we don't need to compare what each person should do. I believe God will show each person how to see and respond to diverse needs. If that's what you're capable of, go ahead and do it. Don't force yourself if you can't. You won't feel bad, and you won't feel obligated to contribute what you have. In the meantime, it's far better to ask God what he wants you to do about this issue. You will know that you are helping the Ukrainian or any other needy person in God's way if you can seek his will before you say yes or no to any decision or action.

                                                                                 

Last but not least 

When the battle is finished, and I am confident it will be ended regardless of the outcome, you and I will be able to stand before God and say, "I am doing what I can according to your will for me." I hope that my advise will be helpful to you in this situation. Another essay I wrote called "Discernment and Hearing God's Voice" discusses how to know what God wants you to do and what his will is for you to provide on this matter as an individual. I think you will have a better knowledge of this topic after reading my next essay. For the time being, God bless you.

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How to experience a powerful prayer life ?

                                                         

Every Christian who wants to experience the power of prayer need to learn how to pray.prayer can be  very simple to a child but sometimes it is hard for a grow up person. Why ? It is just because we grow up person make things too complicated  but a child make things simple.The best way to improve our prayer life is learn how to pray as a child, then we will see breakthrough in our prayer life.How can we do that? We can do that with the following steps :

1. Start to pray in the morning ?

  I still remember the first time when I was experience  a revival in my prayer life after I had attended a church conference. It was just a 180 degree life change experience for me. Before this conference , I have already been a Christian for more than 15 years in the Evangelical realm. Prayer is just an important issue in my head but never in my heart. Actually prayer was a boring experience for me even I always attend the church prayer meeting in the past years.Why did I feel boring? There were two reasons for this problem? First of all, I have never enjoyed prayer because it was just like talking to a person who will never response in the air.Secondly,my former prayer experience in the church prayer meeting was just like a sitting in a meeting and listen to everybody's prayer one by one for an hour but I was only allowed to pray for three minutes for the whole night. All these have been changed after I experienced by prayer revival. I started to pray for an hour early in the morning when I woke up and worship the Lord at the same time. It was just like a fire within me and also a thirsty that motivated me to meet God in the morning with my morning prayer time. Was I tired ? Yes, I was but within my spirit I could feel the power and energy within me after 1 hour of prayer. The rest of the day was full of positive thinking in my mind and always wanted to praise God on those days.That's the reason why I highly recommended you can start your morning prayer all over again. Actually, there were many Christians in church history who have the similar experience as I did and I am sure I am not the only one who has such an experience in  the world as well.Commit yourself to pray for one hour in the morning and you will certainly experience the fire of prayer within you.


2. Start to improve your prayer habit.

Don't expect you can sit on a chair and pray for one hour because you will fall into sleep especially when you didn't have a good sleep the night before. First of all, stand before God and starting to praise Him with songs. Secondly, change your posture whenever you feel tired from one posture (eg. standing) to another posture (eg. walk around in your own room) and keep on praying out loud (but you don't have to wake up anybody who are still sleeping in your house) and that will keep you awake at all times. You can kneel down whenever you feel like it and you can open your eyes and praise God when you feel like falling into sleep during your morning prayer time.Most important of all is to keep you awake and you are praying.


3. Start to listen to God during the prayer time.

Prayer doesn't mean that you are the one who do the talking all the time because you need to let God speaks to you. God will speak to you by telling you in your mind that turn to certain passages or verse of the Bible. The Holy Spirit can speaks to you through a picture in your mind or a vision as well. Whatever God will say to you, just prepare a notebook and  a pen on your table and get ready to write it down or draw it down first. If you can't understand what it means for the time being, just keep asking the Lord about the meaning and He will let you know in times.The Holy Spirit is a great teacher in teaching you how to pray and get to know His voice.As the Bible says that "I tell you the truth, the man who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. The man who enters by the gate is the shepherd of his sheep. The watchman opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice. But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger's voice (John 10:1-5)." All you have to do is to getting familiar to His voice just like sheep get to know the voice of the shepherd and relationship and daily encounter with the Lord Jesus are the two main keys on listening to God. on the other hand, the more you obey on God's words, the more you can hear about His voice.

 Conclusion :

Your prayer life will be different if you are willing to ask the Holy Spirit to fill in your life. You will also experience the power of prayer in that one hour prayer and worship meeting with God. Once you can act like a child and keep up this prayer habit everyday. You will see a major breakthrough in your prayer life. Once you will enjoy prayer and really see God will speaks to you in a way that you are the only one who will gets it, you will start to enjoy your prayer life and you will hear God's voice often.

Top 10 reasons for unanswered prayer

                                                                                       

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There are times we will be full of questions in our mind that why didn't God answer our prayer? Although there are many reasons that God won't answer our prayer, there some reasons that we can find it from the bible. We will focus on the top 10 reasons why our prayers remain unanswered.
 
1. Refusing to hear the truth

    If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
                         (Prov. 28:9)

   Have you even experience someone who knows that what they are asking for is not the will of God? But they make such a prayer anyway. Why ? They want something so bad that they didn't even care whether it is the will of God or not. This kind of prayer never can stand under the truth of God's word.

 2. Tempting or provoking God

     But the LORD was angry with me because of you would not listen to me.And the LORD said to me, 'Enough from you; do not speak to me of this matter again.(Dt. 3:26)

     Once God have already said a final "no " about an issue,
     we better not to ask anymore.Look at Moses and you will know that.

 3. Lack of charity or love to others

     Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.(Prov. 21:13)

      How can we expect God to hear us if we didn't even open our ear to hear the cry from the needy?


4. Lack of humility

    If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.(2 Chron. 7:14)

    There are times we just want to think that God needs to answer everything we ask even when we have failed Him. We didn't know that we really have to humble before the Lord and ask for His forgiveness and have mercy on us. 

 5. A hardened heart

    They made their hearts diamond-hard lest they should hear the law and the words that the LORD of hosts had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of hosts. "As I called, and they would not hear, so they called,and I would not hear," says the LORD of hosts.
        (Zech. 7:12, 13)

    We need to obey God's word at all times and bow down before Him. Someone had a hardened heart and you will never forget what happened to him and his kingdom. His name ------ Pharaoh of Egypt.

 6. Forsaking God

     and he went out to meet Asa and said to him, "Hear me,Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The LORD is with you while you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.(2 Chron.15:2)

     We should always seek God's face and not forsaken His word if we want to see the result in our prayer life.

 7. Praying a miss (wrong motives)

      You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.(James 4:3)
   
      We need to examine our own motive before we seek The Lord in prayer . For the Lord knows our heart and our motive and nothing can be hidden before Him. We can even deceive ourselves but not to God.We can fill in all the beautiful words of the Universe in our prayer, but a wrong motive can never move God to answer our prayer.

 8. Regarding iniquity

     If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.(Ps. 66:18)

     It is important to clear all the rubbish things in our mind before we start to ask God for anything. If our heart is right with God and stay in purity, no obstacles can block our prayer to heaven.

 9. Unbelief

     He said to them, "Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you." (Mt. 17:20) 
     
     And Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household." And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. And he marveled because of their unbelief. And he went about among the villages teaching. (Mk. 6:4-6)

    We need to ask God to build up our faith all the times and God will always train us with His way. Sometimes, it is not an easy training, but it helps us to grow in our prayer life. When faith is build up, sometimes it is just as tiny as a mustard seed, we can move the mountain with this tiny but pure faith.

 10. Sin

       We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.(John 9:31)

       Sin is the major obstacle that we really have to deal with if we want our prayer experience an answer from heaven.

Conclusion:

       God wants to answer our prayer all the time and He wants to answer our prayer all the times if we can pray according to His will. What is His will? It is all in the Bible. If we can pray according to the words of God by faith. And if we can examined our hearts and motive and get right with God. We can be so confidence that our prayer will be answered according to God's timing. Amen.